Hi all - my wife and I spent 3 days driving 700 miles from Denver to Lamar, Pueblo, and back to Denver mainly birding Kiowa, Prowers, Bent, and Otero counties.
Many thanks to all the kind birders in that part of the state - we met Brandon Percival (nicknamed "a couple of weeks too soon" by my wife and me when asking about all the warblers and Mississippi kites we wanted to see) and Gene Rutherford in the Lamar Community College Woods (LCCW) (and later at Two Buttes), a very kind school-teacher from McClave who we met in LCCW who directed us to a red-bellied woodpecker nest just south of the woods, Fred and Norma Dorenkamp (awesome job with the lesser prairie chicken tour!), and Stan Osgood in Rocky Flats. These kind of people make it so much fun (and so much easier)! Also, the people in the towns through which we passed were all very friendly and helpful! I compiled a complete list of 91 unique species, 157 species that crossed multiple counties, and the following county totals: Lincoln - 1 Prowers - 52 Kiowa - 27 Bent - 30 Otero - 47 If anyone would like the complete list, please e-mail mod...@hotmail.com and I'll be happy to send it - it's in Excel format and too long to post! Highlights include: Prowers - Chihuahuan Raven nesting (Gobbler's Knob rest area between Lamar CC and Two Buttes); scaled quail (Camp Amache next to the rodeo arena in Granada); barn owl at Fred and Norma's place; northern cardinals and red-bellied woodpecker in LCCW; not a bird, but a porcupine in a tree at Two Buttes Kiowa - feeding golden eagle, multiple Chihuahan ravens, and wild turkeys displaying (Raven Lane); Blue Lake in general (nice marbled godwit!) Bent - Wilson's snipe at Bent Fort Inn, Lake Hasty (common loon) Otero - Lake Cheraw! Snowy Plover, Franklin Gulls, four of six grebes (horned, eared, western, Clark's), Holbrook Bonaparte's gull and Baird's sandpiper Bryan and Kristin Arnold Jefferson County 5,500' -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en.
